Will AI ever have consciousness?

Will AI ever have consciousness?

The more AI will advance, the more we will start to question whether these machines have consciousness.

Spoiler: they will not. I align with the writing and ideas of Federico Faggin (one of the first microprocessor designers. Fellow of Computer History Museum , California. Just to name one award).

As physicist I believe I know the problem well.?

Let’s say relativity theory or thermodynamics. These theories, in certain scenarios, work so well that you believe reality IS relativity or thermodynamics based.?

It’s a mistake: a theory, no matter how well it resembles reality, it will always miss something.?

A map, no matter how detailed, it will never be the territory.

For those of you nerdy enough, this is a consequence of the Godel theorem. A theory, no matter how excellent, it will always have ‘holes’.?

At some point territory and map, theory and reality look so similar that you are tempted to confuse the two. But it is not going to happen.

No matter how excellent the AI neural network, consciousness is just a different thing altogether (quantistic information nor accessible either explainable. According to Faggin).

Now, where are we today??

We are at the very beginning of the ‘hype’ of AI? ‘can develop consciousness’.?

In other words, we will create machines that can resemble us so well that we will believe they actually have consciousness (like us).

This (wrong) idea is set to last for a while. (10 years?)

As AI resembles our behaviour ‘almost’ perfectly, humanity has to go through a process of understanding the differences between a being with consciousness and one who has not.?

It would be a novel Turing test, but for consciousness.?

That said, in many common daily activities it would be impossible to distinguish AI from us.?

Let’s be honest, most of our tasks are repetitive: we cook, we eat, we wash ourselves, scroll facebook, open emails etc.?

Most of our lives are, sadly, un-conscious: we do many daily tasks in automatic mode ourselves.

Creative tasks are a small part of our lives.?

Distinguishing ourselves from AI machines that can do un-conscious tasks even better than us, it would be impossible in daily life.

Roughly speaking, ‘creativity’? will be key on such a ‘Turing’ test. In other words, the ability to come up with a ‘ready made’ idea from ‘nowhere’ (conscious field) will be tested.

Fun times.

Oh also:

-saying AI is not conscious, it does not make it less dangerous or problematic. At all.

-Quantum computers will have the same? issues if combined with AI (again read Faggin).

-Simplifying Faggin, consciousness is not accessible from outside individuals, nor explainable (quantistic information). This is not a final answer.

-have you noticed, nobody exactly knows what consciousness is? Yet there are people 100% certain AI has consciousness.

-I would not be surprised if sects will start to deify AI machines.?

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